Jason Schwartzman

Krysten Ritter is easily the biggest star to come from the tiny northeastern Pennsylvania villages of Shickshinny and Benton in Luzerne County.

After years of doing good work on TV in "Breaking Bad" and "Gilmore Girls" and in movies such as "Refuge" and "Confessions of a Shopaholic," the actress enjoyed two of her best roles yet in a pair of movies recently released on DVD.

Something of a companion piece to "Ed Wood," Tim Burton's "Big Eyes" (2014, Anchor Bay, PG-13, $30) looks at the life and times of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), an artist who specialized in painting women and children with enormous saucer...

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"Birdman" — actors in constricted spaces using dressing rooms and winding corridors...

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Wes Anderson has collaborated with Prada on an eight-minute short film titled "Casello Cavalcanti," which went up online Wednesday at www.youtube.com/user/PRADA.
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He couldn't have chosen a more apt word.
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